Study Details

Citation

Guilamo-Ramos, V., Bouris, A., Jaccard, J., Gonzalez, B., McCoy, W., Aranda, D. (2011). A parent-based intervention to reduce sexual risk behavior in early adolescence: Building alliances between physicians, social workers, and parents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 48(2), 159-163.

Program or Component Study?
Program
Program or Component Name

Families Talking Together

Show Evidence of Effectiveness
Yes
Study Rating and Explanation
High —

Random assignment study that met all criteria for a high rating; findings show a positive, statistically significant impact for at least one behavioral outcome

Program Information

Program Type
Sexual health education
Program Length
Fewer than 10 sessions

Evaluation Setting

Evaluation Setting
Health clinic or medical facility

Study Sample

Average Age Group
13 or younger
Majority Racial/Ethnic Group
Hispanic or Latinx of any race
Gender
Youth of any gender

Research Design

Assignment Method
Randomized controlled trial
Sample Size

264

Number of Follow-Ups

1

Length of Last Follow-Up

9

Year of Last Data Collection
2010 (Imputed to year of publication minus one year)

Study Findings

Result Sexual Activity
Favorable evidence
Reviewed Studies
High-Quality Randomized Trial
Protocol Version
Version 3.0
Details

The program's evidence of effectiveness was first established in a randomized controlled trial involving African American and Latino adolescents recruited in the waiting room of a community-based pediatric health clinic in the Bronx borough of New York City. The adolescents and their mothers were randomly assigned to either a treatment group that was offered the program or to a control group offered the current standard of care. Surveys were administered immediately before random assignment (baseline) and again nine months later.

The study found that nine months after the program ended, adolescents in the treatment group were statistically significantly less likely to report ever having engaged in vaginal intercourse and a significantly lower frequency of sexual intercourse in the past 30 days. The study found no statistically significant program impacts on rates of oral sex.

Effect Sizes
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NA = Not available. This means the authors did not report the information in the manuscripts associated with the studies we reviewed.

a This information was not available whenever authors did not report information for the treatment and comparison groups separately on outcome means, standard deviations, and/or sample sizes.

b Authors reported that the program effect (impact) estimate is statistically significant with a p-value of less than 0.05 based on a two-tailed test.

c For some outcomes, having less of that outcome is favorable. In those cases, an effect with a negative sign is favorable to the treatment group (that is, the treatment group had a more favorable outcome than the comparison group, on average).

d An effect shows credibly estimated, statistically significant evidence whenever it has a p-value of less than 0.05 based on a two-tailed test, includes the appropriate adjustment for clustering (if applicable), and it is not based on an endogenous subgroup.